Agent of Silence
"What the F**k!!!!!!"
"Gods no!!"
Inuyasha felt his jaw drop to the floor. No . . . it couldn't be.
"Oh hell no!" Kagome's voice snapped him out of his stupor. Was she using that tone of voice . . . against him? Uh-uh. Who did she think she was!?
. . . wait.
"KAGOME!?" Inuyasha's head snapped up to her eyes. Yes, that's exactly who she was. "What the heck are you doing here?" Inuyasha's voice was incredulous. This was his smart-alec student.
"ME!? . . . me! YOU!!! What the . . . . what . . when . . .him?!?!!!" Kagome stuttered. This was . . . this was Inuyasha, her hated male teacher. Why was he here? Because he couldn't be her—no, no he couldn't.
Sango and Miroku had taken to staring at everything except the two adversaries, while Keade seemed to be at a loss for words and was making incoherent sounds like Kagome. This would have been a laughing matter in any other situation. The three people that they knew never lost their cool, were in this room bumbling like idiots.
Inuyasha began to glare at Kagome. OH NO! This wasn't happening. Despite the fact that this would be the perfect explanation for the fact that Kagome was a quick thinker, analyzed a situation before you could begin to grasp it, and was the smartest student in his class; he wasn't about to start believing that she was a top secret agent in a government agency that he used to work for before that love of his life got assassinated because somebody was holding grudges against what, he didn't know, or that he had to partner up with his most infuriating student to get revenge against his archenemy, who he hadn't seen in close to three years! By gods she was 17 years old!!
He was totally disregarding the fact that he had started at about 12 or 13.
"Hag! Spit it out! What do you think you're doing?!" Inuyasha turned his glare upon Keade. Keade almost twitched out of nervousness. But she didn't. Keade didn't twitch.
"It's exactly as it looks Inuyasha. This is Kagome," Keade, waved her hand toward the fuming young girl, "And this, my dear, is Inuyasha."
"I know who that is!!" They both yelled at the same time. Keade took a step back this time.
"Okay then, no need for formalities. I can see that we can skip that phase of the meeting and greeting," Keade composed herself quickly. She knew that Kagome went to school with Inuyasha, but she didn't know their relationship was like . . . this. Well they could just get over it!
"What do you mean 'phase'?" Kagome looked confused. Inuyasha slid a glance, out of the corner of his eyes, to Kagome. She was turning back to a normal color, her flushing receding.
"Well, it's fairly simple. I'm giving you one week to get to know each other's strengths and weaknesses. To learn to cooperate and work together in perfect synchrony. You will learn everything from how one shoots a gun to what one wears to bed. You will know each other backwards and forwards, through and through. You have to be in perfect harmony with one another for you to complete this mission. If you aren't . . . neither of you will come back alive,"
Keade made her speech, allowing them both a couple minutes to let it sink in.
Inuyasha's gaze swiveled around from Keade to Kagome while Kagome snapped her head up from looking at the ground; both did so at the exact same time. They turned their eyes to Keade.
Kagome spoke clearly. "I rather would think that you believe I could do this alone. It seems that I am not ready for this task or else a partner would not have been presented to me," Keade knew that Kagome was a reasonable person, she was happy that at least one of them was on her side, "but I refuse to be partnered to it." Kagome's flush was back in full force.
"WHOA! Back up there kid. Did you just call me it? No. I don't think so. My name is Inuyasha. Do you got that? Keade, there's no way in hell that I will be partnered with this wench!" Inuyasha looked resolute in his decision. This girl had more of an attitude than he thought. Well that was just fine, he could give it all back!
"Aye. I can see that the both of you are against this, but the matter is done. It has been planned and you two are the only two for this job. So Kagome, I hate to do this to you, but if you don't take this mission and this partner, you will be out of a job! And Inuyasha, your revenge will not be conquered on your own, even you are smart enough to figure out that he will not be easy to defeat." Keade looked from one to the other.
'Revenge? What's she talking about? So what am I going to be? A lackey? This is why I don't do partners! People try to steal the job. Well he's got another thing coming!' Kagome's fury didn't fade this time.
Keade could see that they both were absolutely against the idea of an alliance. Well they could just get over it.
"I'll ask you once more to cooperate, if not I will be forced to apply . . . pressure," Keade eyed the two impatiently. Inuyasha glared at her and Kagome glared at Inuyasha. No they weren't going to cooperate.
Keade snapped her fingers. They didn't even have time to react before each had an odd metal necklace around their necks. It tightened immediately, donning a vice like grip on their necks, but not enough to choke them. They had room to move around freely as it fit like elastic.
"What do you think you're doing HAG!" Inuyasha yelled at her. He lifted his hands to take it off but it wouldn't budge. It wouldn't move wide enough to go around his head. 'What is this stuff?!'
"Ha! Can't get it off?" Kagome lifted her hands to do the same, and found the effort futile. 'Stupid girl!' Inuyasha thought.
"Keade, explain!" Kagome pointed a glare at her superior, knowing that she had something up her sleeve.
"You refused to cooperate so I had to act. You will work together on this mission! That's final! This will hopefully teach you to trust each other. I can only hope." Keade looked at the two with impatient eyes. This needed to get on; Naraku was getting spare time!
"What does this do and how does it come off?!" Inuyasha all but yelled at her.
"Well it's quite simple really. You each get a remote control to the other's necklace. The necklaces are set to shock each other. That means if Inuyasha presses his button, it shocks Kagome and Kagome has control over Inuyasha. I advise that you be careful in the use of such, for the shock stings," Keade looked at the grins that were becoming evident on both the faces. They would be in for it.
"Oh, and Inuyasha . . . it doesn't come off," Keade smiled inwardly.
"I must take my leave so, you have a week that you must live together, that starts tomorrow! You will both continue your jobs, and by that Kagome I mean school! I will meet with you after this week is up to discuss plans! NOW GO!" And with that, Keade walked off.
Miroku and Sango eyed the two warily. They had heard enough from Kagome to understand her loath for him. This wouldn't be pretty.
"Okay, so what do you say to heading to the café and grabbing a bite to eat so you can get . . . um . . . to know each other." Miroku, always the mediator, looked at them, they weren't grabbing Keade's subtle hint. They would just have to figure it out.
Inuyasha and Kagome were still trying to figure out how they would live through this week. Was Keade crazy?!
'As long as she keeps her mouth shut, I won't be forced to do anything . . . drastic.' Were Inuyasha's thoughts.
Miroku grabbed hold of Inuyasha and Sango of Kagome, and they were out the door.
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Keade's office was far from the café, so they had a walk to get through before they reached it.
Sango didn't know what to say. Here were her best friends and two of them hated each other. What was she supposed to do? She could deal with Kagome, she only hoped that Miroku could deal with Inuyasha.
Inuyasha decided that he didn't like the quiet too much. He wondered how far he could push Kagome right now. She seemed on edge with their predicament. So was he, but he wasn't about to let her get the first hit.
Inuyasha stuck his foot out; catching Kagome's in the process, making her trip. She put her hands before her chest to catch herself, in so doing letting go of her remote.
Miroku, Sango, and Kagome heard the remote hit the floor and heard the subtle click of the button. 'Uh-oh.'
"Ahhh!" Inuyasha let out an unmanly snort as her found himself upon the floor in surprise. "OW! What the heck."
A/N Well it seems as if it has taken me a bit too long to update this story. I'm sorry. This chapter was really hard to write. I didn't know how to put everything.
I'm not entirely sure if this is happening too fast. Help me out a little.
Hint for next chapter:
Some one meets some one that they haven't seen in a very long time.
Can you guess who? Cookie for who can! :)
